Play ceases in football after every 4-second play to show numerous replays while all the players mill around, and then there are all the lengthy scheduled commercial timeouts and challenges.
That’s why you can watch all the action of a football game in 11 minutes even though it’s on the air for 3 hours.
Yeah, all those delays, and every time a referee announces a penalty it’s his showbiz moment with the camera in closeup & his voice booming across the stadium like he was declaring,
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him!!”
;^)